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enThu, 22 Feb 2018 05:17:36 GMTThu, 22 Feb 2018 05:17:36 GMTRev911125Geocities Archive Set to Be Released Online, Protects Digital HeritageI first started using the Internet back in 1992, whilst at University. Back then it was all about Usenet, and a new thing called “the web” which was emerging. Those brave enough to laboriously hand-code HTML could create websites, but it was not for the feint hearted. Getting server space, a domain name, FTP – these things took some knowledge and as for the art of web design, well, we all remember <blink>don’t we?</blink>

Founded in 1994, Geocities did much to make it easier, and a heck of a lot cheaper, to create and publish websites about your thoughts, interests and pastimes. Acquired by Yahoo in 1999 for $3.57 billion and subsequently closed on October 27th last year, the services boasted 38 million user generated websites. Sure most of them looked pretty bad, worse than MySpace, but Geocities helped millions express themselves for the first time with this new digital medium.

You may have thought all of those websites have been deleted, but the power of the community stepped in. A group of enthusiasts calling themselves the Archive Team set to work with the goal of archiving as many of those old Geocities sites before Yahoo pulled the plug.

That archive was released recently to Bittorrent, clocking in at a mere 625 GB –as a slice of our digital heritage during the early years of the Internet, it’s unparalleled. If you have the bandwidth, and the time, it’s a rich treasure trove of expression that future historians are sure to explore.

]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Geocities-Archive-Set-to-Be-Released-Online-Protects-Digital-Heritage I first started using the Internet back in 1992, whilst at University. Back then it was all about Usenet, and a new thing called “the web” which was emerging. Those brave enough to laboriously hand-code HTML could create websites, but it was not for the feint hearted. Getting server space, a domain name, FTP – these things took some knowledge and as for the art of web design, well, we all remember &lt;blink&gt;don’t we?&lt;/blink&gt; Founded in 1994, Geocities did much to make it easier, and a heck of a lot cheaper, to create and publish websites about your thoughts, interests and pastimes. Acquired by Yahoo in 1999 for $3.57 billion and subsequently closed on October 27th last year, the services boasted 38 million user generated websites. Sure most of them looked pretty bad, worse than MySpace, but Geocities helped millions express themselves for the first time with this new digital medium. You may have thought all of those websites have been deleted, but the power of the community stepped in. A group of enthusiasts calling themselves the Archive Team set to work with the goal of archiving as many of those old Geocities sites before Yahoo pulled the plug. That archive was released recently to Bittorrent, clocking in at a mere 625 GB –as a slice of our digital heritage during the early years of the Internet, it’s unparalleled. If you have the bandwidth, and the time, it’s a rich treasure trove of expression that future historians are sure to explore. https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Geocities-Archive-Set-to-Be-Released-Online-Protects-Digital-Heritage
Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:16:24 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Geocities-Archive-Set-to-Be-Released-Online-Protects-Digital-HeritageTerry WalshTerry Walsh0https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Geocities-Archive-Set-to-Be-Released-Online-Protects-Digital-Heritage/rssYahooPing 72: Open Source love, Exchange Active Sync, Yahoo! by Bing, SilverlightWe LOVE open sourceYahoo!—powered by Bing!Miss SilverlightExchange ActiveSync on HotmailFree software for students!
]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-72-Open-Source-love-Exchange-Active-Sync-Yahoo-by-Bing-SilverlightPaul and Laura spent their entire week finding all these hot stories for this episode of Ping!We LOVE open sourceYahoo!—powered by Bing!Miss SilverlightExchange ActiveSync on HotmailFree software for students!
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Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:51:00 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-72-Open-Source-love-Exchange-Active-Sync-Yahoo-by-Bing-SilverlightLaura FoyLaura Foy15https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-72-Open-Source-love-Exchange-Active-Sync-Yahoo-by-Bing-Silverlight/RSSBingExchange Active SyncOpen SourceSilverlightYahooPete at PDC09: The Sobees Social Client, WPF, Silverlight and Yahoo!
The Sobees clients are written in Silverlight and WPF and share 90+% of their code between the different versions. The Silverlight version supports different systems, and the WPF version includes Windows 7 light-up such as jump lists.

]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Psychlist1972/Pete-at-PDC09-The-Sobees-Social-Client-WPF-Silverlight-and-YahooWhile at PDC09, I met up with Francois Bochatay from Sobees. He showed me an internal build of the Sobees clienst that has a ton of new features, including inline URL previews, Windows 7 integration, support for different social networks like Twitter,
Facebook and Myspace, as well as integration with Yahoo. A version hosted on Azure will also be coming soon.
The Sobees clients are written in Silverlight and WPF and share 90&#43;% of their code between the different versions. The Silverlight version supports different systems, and the WPF version includes Windows 7 light-up such as jump lists.
Sobees Pete's Blog
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Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:04:00 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Psychlist1972/Pete-at-PDC09-The-Sobees-Social-Client-WPF-Silverlight-and-YahooPete BrownPete Brown1https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Psychlist1972/Pete-at-PDC09-The-Sobees-Social-Client-WPF-Silverlight-and-Yahoo/RSSFacebookPDC09PDC 2009SilverlightsobeesTwitterWindows 7WPFYahooPing 27: Code7 contest, Get a Mac- Getting tired, Google fears Bing, Swiss street viewingWin7 app helps with squintingTired Mac adsIs Google scared?Caught on camera!

and also:
No excuse not to see your family this Holiday Season!]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-27-Code7-contest-Get-a-Mac-Getting-tired-Google-fear-Bing-Swiss-street-viewingThis week we got to sit back a little and wax philosophical. What are the right ways to advertise? What applications are useful? When should you really be careful to not get photographed? You tell us....
Win7 app helps with squinting
Tired Mac ads
Is Google scared?
Caught on camera!
and also:
No excuse not to see your family this Holiday Season! 670https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-27-Code7-contest-Get-a-Mac-Getting-tired-Google-fear-Bing-Swiss-street-viewing
Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:24:00 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-27-Code7-contest-Get-a-Mac-Getting-tired-Google-fear-Bing-Swiss-street-viewingLaura FoyLaura Foy11https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-27-Code7-contest-Get-a-Mac-Getting-tired-Google-fear-Bing-Swiss-street-viewing/RSSBingCode7GoogleMac adswin7Windows 7YahooPing 23: Yahoo Partnership, Wave launches, Win7 for testers & Amazon milk ratingshttps://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LauraFoy/Ping-23-Yahoo-Partnership-Wave-launches-Win7-for-testers--Amazon-milk-ratings/
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Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:12:00 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-23-Yahoo-Partnership-Wave-launches-Win7-for-testers--Amazon-milk-ratingsLaura FoyLaura Foy2https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-23-Yahoo-Partnership-Wave-launches-Win7-for-testers--Amazon-milk-ratings/RSSAmazonwaveWin 7Windows 7YahooPing 23: Yahoo Partnership, Wave launches, Win7 for testers & Amazon milk ratingsMicrosoft made huge headlines this week and somehow in the mix of it all, some of us managed to search for Wolf T-shirts on Amazon. Here's how it all went down:

Milk get high ratings!]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-23-Yahoo-Partnership-Wave-launches-Win7-for-testers--Amazon-milk-ratingsMicrosoft made huge headlines this week and somehow in the mix of it all, some of us managed to search for Wolf T-shirts on Amazon. Here's how it all went down:Microsoft and Yahoo partnerRide the Microsoft WaveBeta Testers get Win7 for freeMilk get high ratings! 982https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-23-Yahoo-Partnership-Wave-launches-Win7-for-testers--Amazon-milk-ratings
Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:09:00 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-23-Yahoo-Partnership-Wave-launches-Win7-for-testers--Amazon-milk-ratingsLaura FoyLaura Foy18https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-23-Yahoo-Partnership-Wave-launches-Win7-for-testers--Amazon-milk-ratings/RSSAmazonwaveWin 7Windows 7YahooParty Over for Web Spies

Companies like Yahoo!, Microsoft, and (especially) Google depend on being able to track your browsing habits to better target you with advertisements. In the past 2 years, the proportion of ads being served through ad tracking networks has climbed from 5% to more than 30%, so these tracking networks like Doubleclick (Google), BlueLithium (Yahoo!) and aQuantive (Microsoft) are the lifeblood of the top web properties. DoubleClick touches more than 80% of the addressable Internet population.

Tracking people's behavior on the web is incredibly lucrative, so everyone wants a piece of the action:

So, must we resign ourselves to this trend? Five years from now, will your web browser, ISP, and everyone else spy on you with impunity?

The answer seems to be "no". The first volley was the class-action suit last week against Facebook for the abortive "Beacon" feature. Facebook's "Beacon" feature wasn't actually intended to invade privacy, and didn't go nearly as far as the examples cited above -- but this case demonstrates that people actually *do* care about privacy, and are willing to take action to protect it. Likewise, people almost immediately raised the privacy red flag when Yahoo! announced Fire Eagle location tracking service.

This is huge. The legislation would require companies to get your permission before spying on you. A stronger proposal would require that those spying on your behavior allow you to opt-out at any time, and establish the equivalent of a "do not call" list. There are many details to be worked out, and some well-funded parties with strong incentive to weaken the legislation, so I'm tempering my optimism. But this is a huge step in the right direction.

What do you think? Do we need legislation, or will the industry self-regulate? And do you think that this proposed legislation stands a prayer of making it through the process with teeth intact?

]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Joshua/Party-Over-for-Web-SpiesCompanies like Yahoo!, Microsoft, and (especially) Google depend on being able to track your browsing habits to better target you with advertisements. In the past 2 years, the proportion of ads being served through ad tracking networks has climbed from 5% to more than 30%, so these tracking networks like Doubleclick (Google), BlueLithium (Yahoo!) and aQuantive (Microsoft) are the lifeblood of the top web properties. DoubleClick touches more than 80% of the addressable Internet population. Tracking people's behavior on the web is incredibly lucrative, so everyone wants a piece of the action: FireFox, the popular web browser, has announced plans to track your browsing habits directly from the browser, without needing to use tracking cookies. AT&amp;T has announced that they can track your browsing behavior directly off of the wire, without needing to extend the browser or use tracking cookies. They will sell this information to ad networks, or use it to target their own ads. Several other ISPs have already embarked on projects to track people's behavior for ad tracking, supported by startups like NebuAd and Phorm. With all of these companies fighting over you like a piece of meat, you'd think someone would ask you what you think. Historically, the companies profiting from tracking your behavior have pointed out that people often say that they want privacy, but then give it up easily. Google has gone so far as to say that there is &quot;no such thing as complete privacy&quot; and they don't get a lot of credit from the critics for sincerity. So, must we resign ourselves to this trend? Five years from now, will your web browser, ISP, and everyone else spy on you with impunity? The answer seems to be &quot;no&quot;. The first volley was the class-action suit last week against Facebook for the abortive &quot;Beacon&quot; feature. Facebook's &quot;Beacon&quot; feature wasn't actually intended to invade privacy, and didn't go nearly as far as the examples cited abovhttps://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Joshua/Party-Over-for-Web-Spies
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:16:00 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Joshua/Party-Over-for-Web-SpiesJoshua AllenJoshua Allen0https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Joshua/Party-Over-for-Web-Spies/RSSFirefoxGooglePrivacyYahooBOSS Ain't BadYahoo! just announced that they are opening up their search engine for people to re-rank and augment search results to create custom search engines. I saw an early version of this feature (named Yahoo! BOSS), and have been anticipating the release. Unsuprisingly, I think that some of the popular blogs are wrong about BOSS.

Contrary to what the popular blogs are saying, I don't think this move is as radical or revolutionary as Search Monkey. It's definitely cool, but Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft have all had search APIs for a long time. The news here is not about a search API, but about the terms of use. The terms of use for BOSS are admittedly more generous than Google's, but not radically so. I previously explained why I think Search Monkey (a product which the popular blogs largely dismissed) is truly innovative. BOSS is a good addition, but the really creative parts are still just vapor.

The most perplexing coverage is both CNET and ZDNet somehow confusing BOSS with open source. Nothing could be further from the truth. Not only do you not get the source code to Yahoo!'s search algorithm, you are forbidden from trying to reverse-engineer it. It is true that Yahoo! contributes various technology to the open-source community, and a Yahoo! engineer recently won the TeraSort benchmark using the open-source platform upon which Yahoo! search runs. But the actual ranking and indexing algorithms are Yahoo! search's crown jewels, and they would be crazy to give those away. Perhaps people are just confused because "BOSS" ends in "OSS"?

Finally, a common theme in the blogs is that this is a "Hail Mary" play of desperation brought about in response to the recent drama with Microsoft. But I'm not convinced. BOSS is a lot less crazy than Search Monkey, and is really just an increment on what Google are already doing. The terms of use may be dangerously liberal, but they have plenty of room to learn and change. And it's not the kind of feature that someone can crank out in a few days. They have been working on this for awhile. ]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Joshua/BOSS-Aint-BadYahoo! just announced that they are opening up their search engine for people to re-rank and augment search results to create custom search engines. I saw an early version of this feature (named Yahoo! BOSS), and have been anticipating the release. Unsuprisingly, I think that some of the popular blogs are wrong about BOSS.Contrary to what the popular blogs are saying, I don't think this move is as radical or revolutionary as Search Monkey. It's definitely cool, but Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft have all had search APIs for a long time. The news here is not about a search API, but about the terms of use. The terms of use for BOSS are admittedly more generous than Google's, but not radically so. I previously explained why I think Search Monkey (a product which the popular blogs largely dismissed) is truly innovative. BOSS is a good addition, but the really creative parts are still just vapor.The most perplexing coverage is both CNET and ZDNet somehow confusing BOSS with open source. Nothing could be further from the truth. Not only do you not get the source code to Yahoo!'s search algorithm, you are forbidden from trying to reverse-engineer it. It is true that Yahoo! contributes various technology to the open-source community, and a Yahoo! engineer recently won the TeraSort benchmark using the open-source platform upon which Yahoo! search runs. But the actual ranking and indexing algorithms are Yahoo! search's crown jewels, and they would be crazy to give those away. Perhaps people are just confused because &quot;BOSS&quot; ends in &quot;OSS&quot;?Finally, a common theme in the blogs is that this is a &quot;Hail Mary&quot; play of desperation brought about in response to the recent drama with Microsoft. But I'm not convinced. BOSS is a lot less crazy than Search Monkey, and is really just an increment on what Google are already doing. The terms of use may be dangerously liberal, but they have plenty of room to learn and change. And it's not the kind ofhttps://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Joshua/BOSS-Aint-Bad
Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:02:00 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Joshua/BOSS-Aint-BadJoshua AllenJoshua Allen0https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Joshua/BOSS-Aint-Bad/RSSSearchYahooSearchMonkey is Disruptive

OK, after being initially skeptical, I’ve become convinced that Yahoo! SearchMonkey has the potential to really change the game in search. The evidence is mounting that they have really thought this through, and that they intend to disrupt the existing order. The plan is somewhat crazy, but this just might work.

When SearchMonkey launched, about 6 weeks ago, it seemed that the news was primarily lauded by proponents of RDF who believed Yahoo!’s endorsement of RDF would resurrect their beloved but anemic Semantic Web (with a big “S”) standard and give it legs to finally dethrone the small-“s” semantic web technologies like tags and microformats. To understand why they were so excited, you need to understand that it is the search engines who strangled RDF in the first place.

1) Search engines are the dominant way that people query for entities on the web, and it’s nearly impossible to get authors to add the semantics and bootstrap the semantic web if search engines ignore the semantics or promote competing semantics.

2) When it is difficult to extract semantics from documents, it gives advantage to incumbents with massive scale data centers who can extract semantics from natural language. It creates barriers to entry for new competitors.

3) As a top search engine, you want the most useful semantic information stored in a format that your competitors cannot utilize.

For 7 years, my thesis held. At the time, I lobbied both Google and Microsoft to start indexing RDF (and later microformats). My hope was that their desire to disrupt the (then) dominant Yahoo! search position would lead to a more open web. But for 7 years, no search engine was crazy enough to truly adopt open standards for semantics. In fact, Google even dropped support for meta tag’s rudimentary semantics during that time period.

Then came SearchMonkey. For the reasons outlined above, indexing RDF and microformats is a pretty crazy underdog disruptive strategy, so I was skeptical. At first, my skepticism seemed to be justified:

1) At first, they supported only a handful of partners. See point #3 above.

2) The functionality was totally opt-in by consumers, and Yahoo! was doing nothing to evangelize it to average users. It looked like a silly PR stunt to curry favor with the RDF and microformats camps, and clearly Yahoo! was not putting any wood behind it.

3) Semantics can only be added by document owners, on their own subdomain. This immediately favors large incumbents. See the whitepaper for a description of why author-created metadata is a very weak form of semantics.

In the past 2 weeks, however, the first two reasons for my initial skepticism have been obliterated. The SearchMonkey gallery has expanded, and there are a number of interesting services already available. It appears that Yahoo! is promoting services which are not necessarily created by the site authors, which is huge. Check out the Wikipedia Topics entry, for example. And the PHP API entry is a perfect example of why opt-in by default was a good choice – I may want my search results to show PHP API entries, but most people do not. In addition, Yahoo! has started to promote the gallery from the home page of search.yahoo.com, under the customize button.

This isn’t a PR stunt. These guys are serious. Yahoo! took the single thing that drives publisher behavior (search engine exposure) and tied it squarely to open semantic standards.

Now, let’s contrast this with the Google approach. Google were the very first to offer “blended” search results, and much was made of the fact that Google Maps returns microformats on search results page. But spitting up microformats from your proprietary index is the opposite of consuming microformats to enrich your index. And the mechanism by which Google attaches semantics to the “plus box” is notoriously opaque. Watching people beg Matt Cutts for information, insinuate that blended results on SERP amounts to paid placement, or speculate about the algorithm as it changes under their feet (did Google “plus box” really just start scraping hCard?) makes you appreciate the way that Yahoo! does it out in the open.

Google did pay lip service to “out in the open”, when they launched Google Base to much fanfare and started integrating Google Base results into the main search results page. But Google Base still required publishers to store their content in Google’s servers, and the prominent listing on the search results page quickly became a distant memory and Google Base a black hole with little influence on the main search page.

I think people were a bit confused when Yahoo! claimed that SearchMonkey is a “long tail” strategy. But the discussion of Google’s contrasts should have made it clear by now that they are right. Yahoo!’s model of user opt-in makes room for both the default mass-appeal plugins (like Flickr) and the more niche plugins like PHP APIs.

Overall, this is very strong progress in just 6 weeks. To keep up the momentum, Yahoo! needs to continue promoting to end-users, and should be more aggressive about influencing search results ordering when SearchMonkey plugins are installed. For example, I have opted-in to the Yelp plugin, but perfectly good Yelp tresults often get pushed off of the page by CitySearch and others. Random samplings of users who haven’t tried any customizations should be shown enhanced search results pages and offered the chance to customize.

In addition, Yahoo! should allow SearchMonkey plugins to customize results for other pages. For example, I should be able to see the IMDB information next to a search result for a blog page that reviews a movie. This would truly bootstrap the use of microformats, since adding a microformat to your page would automatically make it more useful to anyone using Yahoo!’s search engine. Google tried something similar, with less than stellar results, when they started using scraped addresses from around the web to enhance their map “plus box”. When Google scraped restaurant addresses from old and outdated sites, the search results page “plus box” started directing diners to the wrong location, leaving restaurant owners bewildered as they tried to figure out where the wrong data was coming from. Yahoo!’s approach mitigates against this, since people opt-in to the provider, and they know where the data is coming from. In Google’s approach, you get whatever plugins Google gives you, and you have no idea where they are getting the data.

If Yahoo! share stabilizes or increases, I would expect Google to respond by being more aggressive with their “plus box”, and perhaps embracing and extending, with an eye to extinguishing SearchMonkey. SearchMonkey will encourage the greatest proliferation of microformats yet seen on the Internet, and as more microformats are available, Google will certainly start to leverage this information more in building their index.

]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Joshua/SearchMonkey-is-DisruptiveOK, after being initially skeptical, I’ve become convinced that Yahoo! SearchMonkey has the potential to really change the game in search. The evidence is mounting that they have really thought this through, and that they intend to disrupt the existing order. The plan is somewhat crazy, but this just might work. When SearchMonkey launched, about 6 weeks ago, it seemed that the news was primarily lauded by proponents of RDF who believed Yahoo!’s endorsement of RDF would resurrect their beloved but anemic Semantic Web (with a big “S”) standard and give it legs to finally dethrone the small-“s” semantic web technologies like tags and microformats. To understand why they were so excited, you need to understand that it is the search engines who strangled RDF in the first place. 7 years ago (when Google was still a serious underdog), I argued that the search engines completely control the fate of “semantic web” standards, and explained that the major search engines have very little business incentive to support such standards. You can read the whole whitepaper, but the summary is simple: 1) Search engines are the dominant way that people query for entities on the web, and it’s nearly impossible to get authors to add the semantics and bootstrap the semantic web if search engines ignore the semantics or promote competing semantics. 2) When it is difficult to extract semantics from documents, it gives advantage to incumbents with massive scale data centers who can extract semantics from natural language. It creates barriers to entry for new competitors. 3) As a top search engine, you want the most useful semantic information stored in a format that your competitors cannot utilize. For 7 years, my thesis held. At the time, I lobbied both Google and Microsoft to start indexing RDF (and later microformats). My hope was that their desire to disrupt the (then) dominant Yahoo! search position would lead to a more open web. But for 7 years, no search engine https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Joshua/SearchMonkey-is-Disruptive
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:07:00 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Joshua/SearchMonkey-is-DisruptiveJoshua AllenJoshua Allen0https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Joshua/SearchMonkey-is-Disruptive/RSSSearchYahooMicrosoft could acquire Yahoo: What do you think?If you ever wanted to see a perfect storm of hyperlinked news, today’s revelation that Microsoft wants to talk to Yahoo about a merger is it. For those who haven’t already been deafened by twitter exclamations and email flurries, let’s walk through the news thus far. That bastion of responsible news reporting The New York Post, broke the story this morning. Apparently when Google picked up DoubleClick last month, the big heads here in Redmond decided it may be time to ante up in the acquisition game, and reopened a longstanding dialog with Yahoo. The ever-anonymous ‘sources’ were sure to include a $50b price tag, as well as reminding us that combining the search advertising shares of MSFT and YHOO would represent 27 percent against GOOG’s 65 percent.

David Kaplan of paidContent.org chimed in early, echoing the NY Post article, as well as reminding everyone of Jerry Yang’s avoidance of Microsoft products, and how much an acquisition could close the gap between Microsoft and Google. Reuters also covered the story with this choice quote from Peter Lobravico of Wall Street Access: “You can’t find a stronger buyer than Microsoft and while it would spur a lot of political and regulatory noise, everyone knows in the end that the deal would go through.”

Scott Beale picked the right graphic for Laughing Squid’s coverage, and also highlighted the 18 point jump in Yahoo’s stock on news of the negotiations. He also pointed out Eric Schonfeld’s post at The Next Net, which notes that the deal would have an air of desperation, and that, “The culture-clash of two companies could undermine any financial gains a Microsoft-Yahoo merger could produce.” Some astute opinion came from Henry Blodget at Internet Outisder, who recommends the two companies join, and then for Microsoft to spin off a Yahoo-MSN organization.

This questions raised by this morning’s news are far more interesting than the coverage of it, given that very little has actually transpired. So what are the questions then? What are your wildest fantasies about how a Microhoo/Yahsoft would exist, and what sort of combinations could make the new company insanely great?

]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jesse/Microsoft-could-acquire-Yahoo-What-do-you-think If you ever wanted to see a perfect storm of hyperlinked news, today’s revelation that Microsoft wants to talk to Yahoo about a merger is it. For those who haven’t already been deafened by twitter exclamations and email flurries, let’s walk through the news thus far. That bastion of responsible news reporting The New York Post, broke the story this morning. Apparently when Google picked up DoubleClick last month, the big heads here in Redmond decided it may be time to ante up in the acquisition game, and reopened a longstanding dialog with Yahoo. The ever-anonymous ‘sources’ were sure to include a $50b price tag, as well as reminding us that combining the search advertising shares of MSFT and YHOO would represent 27 percent against GOOG’s 65 percent. David Kaplan of paidContent.org chimed in early, echoing the NY Post article, as well as reminding everyone of Jerry Yang’s avoidance of Microsoft products, and how much an acquisition could close the gap between Microsoft and Google. Reuters also covered the story with this choice quote from Peter Lobravico of Wall Street Access: “You can’t find a stronger buyer than Microsoft and while it would spur a lot of political and regulatory noise, everyone knows in the end that the deal would go through.” Scott Beale picked the right graphic for Laughing Squid’s coverage, and also highlighted the 18 point jump in Yahoo’s stock on news of the negotiations. He also pointed out Eric Schonfeld’s post at The Next Net, which notes that the deal would have an air of desperation, and that, “The culture-clash of two companies could undermine any financial gains a Microsoft-Yahoo merger could produce.” Some astute opinion came from Henry Blodget at Internet Outisder, who recommends the two companies join, and then for Microsoft to spin off a Yahoo-MSN organization. This questions raised by this morning’s news are far more interesting than the coverage of it, given that very little has actually transpired. So what are the questions thehttps://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jesse/Microsoft-could-acquire-Yahoo-What-do-you-think
Fri, 04 May 2007 19:41:00 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jesse/Microsoft-could-acquire-Yahoo-What-do-you-thinkJD LewinJD Lewin4https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jesse/Microsoft-could-acquire-Yahoo-What-do-you-think/RSSSearchYahooAdvertisingBusinessmergersYou Witness News launches from YahooNY Times article, Yahoo launched their citizen journalism site You Witness News this morning. After signing in with your Yahoo! ID, you can upload just about any movie file that weighs less than 100 megs. After providing some brief description, tagging, and date information, the video will go live. You can also connect a Flickr account to the site and upload still images through Flickr. The media that gets contributed to this new site will be available to the editors of both Yahoo News and Reuters for use in appropriate articles. ]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jesse/You-Witness-News-launches-from-YahooPer yesterday's NY Times article, Yahoo launched their citizen journalism site You Witness News this morning. After signing in with your Yahoo! ID, you can upload just about any movie file that weighs less than 100 megs. After providing some brief description, tagging, and date information, the video will go live. You can also connect a Flickr account to the site and upload still images through Flickr. The media that gets contributed to this new site will be available to the editors of both Yahoo News and Reuters for use in appropriate articles.https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jesse/You-Witness-News-launches-from-Yahoo
Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:22:00 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jesse/You-Witness-News-launches-from-YahooJD LewinJD Lewin3https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jesse/You-Witness-News-launches-from-Yahoo/RSSMediaNewsSocialSoftwareYahoojournalism